Word: bourguibaism
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...weeks Bourguiba had dutifully followed his medical instructions by drinking a pint of apple juice a day and taking brisk walks in the Swiss woods (though he passed up the clinic's vegetable dinners in favor of juicy steaks sent in from a nearby hotel). But his hospital room was piled with newspapers and books, alive with the ring of telephones and crowded with visitors. In the clinic's driveway, diplomatic limousines came and went. On his orders, diplomats scurried on a triangular course running from Zurich to Paris to Tunis and back. Early this week Bourguiba...
...stucco building in the hills behind Zurich, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba was ostensibly taking a "nature cure." Actually, he was hard at work-as an invited friend of both sides-directing the elaborate maneuvers designed to bring an end to the six-year-old Algerian...
...Build a State. Bourguiba's role as "honest broker" between France and the Algerian rebel F.L.N. began three weeks ago, when De Gaulle gave a reception for 230 members of the diplomatic corps in Paris. Tunisia's young chargé d'affaires was overwhelmed when he was ushered into a small reception room to find De Gaulle waiting for him. De Gaulle asked him to tell his government that De Gaulle would like to see the Tunisian President in the interest of Algerian peace. Bourguiba picked as his emissary Information Minister Mohammed Masmoudi, who called...
Night Attacks. In Zurich, Bourguiba told reporters: "For the first time, French public opinion knows that, sooner or later, Algeria will become independent. Talks between De Gaulle and the Algerians should first determine how peace can be restored, then examine what Algeria's future relations with France should be." The "provisional" Premier of the Algerian Republic, Ferhat Abbas, and his F.L.N. Foreign Minister, Belkacem Krim, cut short their tour of Southeast Asia to rush back to Tunis for discussions with Bourguiba's man, Masmoudi. Burly Ahmed Boumendjel, who had headed the F.L.N. delegation to the Melun fiasco, flew...
...Paris, Bourguiba will presumably caution De Gaulle to give some sort of recognition to the F.L.N. as a disciplined and worthy opponent-perhaps through a private meeting with the F.L.N.'s Ferhat Abbas, where assurances can be exchanged. What the moment calls for is someone skillful enough to smooth the initial approach between France and the F.L.N. rebels it has fought for six long years. Dapper, quick-witted Habib Bourguiba may be just...